Anxiety among Haitians in Ohio has been growing as the federal government has started flying people who lost protected status back to the troubled Caribbean country. Meanwhile, an aid organization, the International Rescue Committee, reports that attacks are spreading in Haiti. Gangs already rule most of the capital, Port-au-Prince. And they’re expanding their influence into […]
Ohio spent 2025 building the biggest overhaul of its property tax system in decades, and it still didn’t touch the part that matters most, a gap that gets harder to call an accident the longer you look at it. Five companion bills took effect between December 2025 and March 2026, adjusting how fast valuations can […]
Every morning in the Ohio Capital Journal’s free newsletter, The Eye-Opener, we round up the news and commentary from across Ohio and around the country and world that is catching our attention. We call this feature Catching Our Eye, republished here. Please subscribe to our free daily newsletter to get all the Ohio news you need to know […]
In 2022, then-Lt. Gov. Jon Husted stirred controversy when he joined the board of a regional bank. He already had two official jobs with the state that paid $176,000. Why, critics asked, did he need another? And, because the executive branch he was part of regulates such banks, did he have a potential conflict of […]
Voters in 18 Ohio municipalities and townships will decide the future of data centers in their communities this Election Day. The deadline to file charter amendment petitions with Ohio’s city councils in time to make the Nov. 3 ballot passed Sept. 4. Registered voters in charter cities can file charter amendment petitions at any time, […]
Last week we learned that if Democrats retake Congress this November, they plan to move fast to address skyrocketing healthcare costs. This plan appears to center on three priorities: undoing punishing Medicaid cuts passed as part of the Orwellian-named One Big Beautiful Bill, bringing back Affordable Care Act subsidies, and considering moving up the Medicare […]
Yemen is at risk of spiraling back into all-out war as Houthi forces and Saudi Arabia exchange new strikes amid a fight over control of the key Bab el-Mandeb strait through which much of Saudi oil passes on its way to world markets. The Houthis, the Iran-allied force also known as Ansarallah, has seized Yemen’s […]
Did Saudi Arabia play a role in the planning and execution of the September 11 attacks of 2001? That question was raised immediately after the attack, when 15 of the 19 hijackers were revealed to be Saudi citizens, and it has only grown louder in the 25 years since as more evidence emerged of the […]
A quarter-century after the September 11 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in the United States, a group of victims’ families is continuing a lawsuit against Saudi Arabia to hold the kingdom accountable for any role it played in the planning and execution of the plot. While the Saudi government has always denied advance knowledge […]
The film NAZA, which documents the Israeli military’s use of secret AI-powered systems to deliberately and systematically target and massacre civilians in Gaza, won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival Saturday. The film was directed by Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham and filmmaker Rachel Szor, both of whom won an Oscar for the […]
Anthropic’s CEO Calls for the Development of Artificial Intelligence to Slowdown, Head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization Blocked From Attending Annual IAEA Meeting, Houthis Claim Drone and Missile Attack on Military Base in Southern Saudi Arabia, B’tselem: Israel Systematically Dismantling Palestinian Life in Occupied West Bank, Israeli Airstrike in Gaza Kills At Least Two People, […]
We look at how post-9/11 policies and the so-called war on terror reshaped the country and the world with two Columbia faculty members who convened a two-day symposium on “The Forever War and the First Amendment.” The symposium brought together journalists, scholars, lawyers and activists to explore the legacy of the “war on terror,” specifically […]
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